Bertelsmann's U.S. Revenue
Exceeds Its German Results

GUETERSLOH, Germany -- Bertelsmann AG, reporting a 2.6% rise in net profit, said U.S. revenue surged past German revenue for the first time in its history last year.

The German media company, which last year acquired the Random House Inc. book-publishing company in New York, said U.S. revenue accounted for nine billion marks ($5.07 billion or 4.83 billion euros), or 34.7% of the company's 26 billion marks of consolidated revenue in the year ended June 30. That compares to German revenue of 7.3 billion marks, or 28.1% of...